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Description of problem:
The clearpart documentation in
file:///usr/share/doc/anaconda-9.0.93/kickstart-docs.html is misleading.  It states:

    For example, the following clears the partitions on the first two 
    drives on the primary IDE controller:

    clearpart --drives hda,hdb

This may have been true at one time, but now the default is CLEARPART_TYPE_NONE,
so this will do nothing.  I suggest you change this example to:

    clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --all

or

    clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --linux

(Note the = which makes the example consistent with the syntax used in the
earlier part of the documentation.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-9.0.93-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Kickstart on already partitioned drive with clearpart --drives=hda


Actual Results:  Error message (reproduced here:
http://www.bohnsack.com/lists/archives/xcat-user/1457.html), because anaconda
can't add more partitions, since none were removed.

At this point, an fdisk -l will also show all the old paritions.

This is not expected behavior based on the example in the documentation.

Expected Results:  Cleared partitions and successful kickstart.

Additional info:

Success is obtained with clearpart --drives=hda --all